ive actually been hooked on an older game i picked up on a whim, called king arthur

fantastic, fun game - its like a total war clone but with hero units that level up, cast spells, gain meaningful new pieces of gear and go on choose your own adventure type text quests. its a lot of fun, a bit difficult but small tweaks to army composition and battlefield tactics go a long way in turning a previous rout into a victory. fun game

I picked up Bloodmasque last night, Squeenix's new RPG/fighter...thing. I thought the gimmick of importing images of your face which are then mapped to the Unreal Engine models would wear thin, but there's a very solid Infinity Blade-esque game built around it. Seeing yourself actually in the game is just a stupidly fun bonus.

Shadowrun Returns has filled in some of the time in between. It feels a bit low rent at times (which is understandable since they made that entire game with their $1.4 million Kickstarter funds or however much it was, and I wish there was a proper tutorial rather than a giant info dump right at the beginning. But otherwise, it's an excellent rebirth of the Shadowrun franchise. Can't wait for the Berlin DLC and the amazing mods that are sure to come out of this.

I also tried out Rogue Legacy for a little while but didn't see why everybody is so gaga over it. I thought that Super House of Dead Ninjas did a similar concept (rogue-like platformer) with better core mechanics.